Professor Willett was a chemist of nation-wide repute. During the Civil War he was superintendent of the Arsenal Laboratory in Atlanta where ammunition was manu¬factured for the Confederates. In addition to being a top educator in the fields of Chemistry, Microscopy, and Natural Philosophy, he served as a member of the US commission to investigate the ravages of the cotton caterpillar. A science building at Mercer University in Macon is named the “Willet Science Center” in his honor. In 1869, Willett wrote Wonders of Insect Life, a popular book of the era marketed as “suitable even for Sunday School libraries.”
(1826-1897) (Magnolia, lot 2, row B24)
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